[Jor-El]

I've always benched around 12.45v.

[ReverendMaynard]

no need to go above 12v.

[Chuchnit]

I asked this once and raja's answer went way over my head like everything he says, lol. Won't you just be creating extra heat at the pwm area of the mobo/gfx; etc? If the juice can't be used it has no choice but being wasted as heat.

[Jor-El]

Yeah I know but is something that I've been doing since my DFI NF2 toaster, old habits and believes are hard to die.

[Hondacity]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

I asked this once and raja's answer went way over my head like everything he says, lol. Won't you just be creating extra heat at the pwm area of the mobo/gfx; etc? If the juice can't be used it has no choice but being wasted as heat.

you won't be creating extra heat...

at idle cpu's can throttle down... even gpu's throttle down...

at load you'll want a higher potential(voltage)

about the extra juice being wasted.......its the current that becomes heat...if the load doesn't require much current then there isnt much heat at all...


voltage

Voltage is the potential energy of an electrical supply stored in the form of an electrical charge, and the greater the voltage the greater is its ability to produce an electrical current flowing through a given circuit.

link http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/...its/dcp_1.html